Martha Dougherty is both a photographer and a writer who has had her pictures and articles published in Country Magazine, West Virginia Magazine, on calendars and in books, including the multi-contributor Life In the Slow Lane.

For more information on the author, including a brief biography and access to her photography galleries, visit her website at http://marthadheritage.com.
Three Time Maxwell Award Winning Author Gail MacMillan invites you on a very special journey in this true Maxwell Award winning story of Ceilidh's Quest.

Loved by her new owner, always searching for her previous owner, Ceilidh represents the epitome in devotion, bravery, and torn loyalties. After spending three happy years with her first owner's family, circumstances force the unthinkable, and Ceilidh is sent away. Luckily, Ceilidh is placed with Gail MacMillan, a truly devoted animal lover. There, she finds an understanding heart even as she begins her restless quest for her past life.

Ceilidh goes on to be a well-known show dog and is featured in one of her new mistress's books on Duck Tolling Retrievers, but will this courageous little dog ever find peace and accept the love of her new owner?
Ceilidh's Quest
2007 DWAA Maxwell Award Winner
Gail MacMillan
124 pages - Soft Cover

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The fact that some of life's deepest lessons can be learned from what we humans consider 'simple' creatures could only be picked up on by an author as sensitive and observant as Gail MacMillan. Laughter and tears flow in equal measure. ~ Rebecca Melvin, author (In the Brief Eternal Silence)

With the writing of Ceilidh’s Quest, Gail MacMillan has joined the ranks of the authors of such classics as Lassie, Come Home and Black Beauty.      
~ Douglas Wayne Coldwell, author, educator, and breeder of champion Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers

Ceilidh’s Quest is a very personal treatise on the unique and reciprocal interspecies relationships that manifest between people and dogs…understood completely by incurable dog people everywhere.
~ Jim Gourlay, publisher, Eastern Woods and Waters and Saltscapes magazines.

Gail MacMillan has succeeded once again to captivate dog lovers with the enchanting tale of Ceilidh. It tugs at your heart and warms your sense of family traditions.        ~ Lyman Ward, Hollywood writer, director, and actor

A touching and entertaining story that even die-hard cat-lovers will find irresistible.
~ Raymond Fraser, author and Governor-General’s Award nominee.
Gail MacMillan is a three-time recipient of Maxwell Medals presented for excellence in writing by the Dog Writers Association of American in New York City. Her most recent win in 2007 was for Ceilidh's Quest published by Double Edge Press. In 2006 her personal essay Promise Pending won first place in the North Shore Writers Literary Competition (Vancouver, BC) and was later aired nationally on CBC radio. Her short story A Chance to Care received honorary mention in the Christian Writers Literary Contest (Edmonton,Alberta). One judge described her writing as reminiscent of "Where the Red Fern Grows" and "Old Yeller". Her most previous dog book Biography of a Beagle won Best in the Fiction Category at the DWAA in New
York in 2002. 
As a young housewife and mother of three, Martha Curtis hit upon a
project to chronicle a year in her family’s life. She began New Year’s Eve, 1969, and continued through the year 1970.

What resulted was a unique time capsule of the era. Often we speak of or hear how different it used to be. Was it really? Martha’s book offers the answers simply by following the day to day routines, the plans and the hopes of her family. What we find as we read along is a testament that life really was much simpler, that communities really were more connected, and that faith was more abounding.

Originally released in 1974, “Bits and Pieces” quietly ran its course of much excitement to barely remembered until late 2005. At that time it was picked up for rerelease by Double Edge Press along with a request for Martha to do a follow-up in the same autobiographical journal style for the year 2006. The resulting effort was “Thirty-Six Years Later. . .”

The span of years between saw many changes, but Martha still resided in the same community, and her hopes and plans proved to be as vivid as her first writing nearly four decades earlier.
Bits and Pieces
Martha Curtis-
Dougherty
84 pages - Soft Cover

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In 2006, Double Edge Press asked her to do a follow-up in the same autobiographical journal style. She was now Martha Dougherty, had grandchildren, and her children were now middle-aged and facing many of the same challenges she herself went through. What words of wisdom would she have to share with them and a whole new generation?

Many of the elements that made her original book a classic read are still evident: the optimism, the simplicity, her faith in God to get her through. Her day to day schedule is surprisingly even more active than her first very busy writing nearly four decades earlier.

What does a 'retired' woman in her seventies do? Find out as you fly with Martha to Vegas and Maine, take road-trips through neighbor-ing states, show in art festivals and run a photography business and an internet site for her work. In between this she somehow finds time to run a household, entertain, go to church, attend weddings and, sadly, funerals, all while being a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and becoming a great-grandmother.

Join her on an entertaining and thoughtful journey that reminds us all of the importance of pursuing hopes and dreams no matter what your age.
Bits and Pieces
Martha Dougherty
136 pages - Soft Cover

List: 17.00

Discount Price: 9.35
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Her work has appeared in Outdoor Canada, Saltscapes, Eastern Woods and Waters, Gun Dog, Dogs in Canada, Dog World, Dog Fancy, Camping Canada, Canadian Yachting, Seaports and the Shipping World, Dogs USA, Reader’s Digest Travel Books, The Retriever Journal, and Just Labs as well as a number of other publications. She has also done readings of her personal essays on CBC radio (Karen Levine, producer).

Gail is the author of fourteen published books, two of them the first ever about Canada’s own Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever: The Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (Alpine Publishing, Loveland, Co.) and A Breed Apart (Nimbus, Halifax, NS). Her third dog book is the Maxwell Medal winning Biography of a Beagle published by Borealis in Ottawa. Two of her other books are history books, An Outline of the History of Bathurst (Tribune Press, Sussex, NB) and Winds of Change, a history of the town of Chatham, NB (Tourism Miramichi, Miramichi, NB). Seven of her books have been published by Avalon in New York (novels), the remainder have been published by Awe-struck e-books in Iowa.

She is a graduate of Queen’s University with post graduate studies in narrative and expository writing at the University of Western Ontario.  She has served on the New Brunswick Arts Board, the New Brunswick Bicentennial Commission, the Bathurst Heritage Trust Commission, the Negisiguit Library Board, and been awarded certificates of merit for her contribution to the arts both in the city of Bathurst and by the Yarmouth Historical Society (Yarmouth, NS). 

She has done numerous book signings at Chapters and elsewhere as well as appearing on television and radio.
An iconic racing figure in the 1970’s, Dynamite Mike McGee was beloved by many. Few of those seeing him standing in the winner’s circle knew of the challenges he had overcome. No one knew of the challenges he would face in his future.

Born with dwarfism and a myriad of birth defects, Mike was not expected to live out his first week. He was never expected to live past his twenties.

Despite all odds, Mike went on to live life to the fullest. He built and raced cars. He married and fathered a child. At forty-one years of age, Mike had achieved as much as any man.

After years of danger and accidents on the race-track, it was a simple mishap resulting in brain damage that changed his life forever. Divorced, custody of his child lost, confined to a wheelchair, his speech diminished, his hearing and balance impaired and ultra-sensitive to light, Mike’s life had gone from the winner’s circle to again facing incredible odds against him.

This is the story of how Mike McGee, now a well-known artist, faced daunting challenges to build a life for himself, not just once, but twice.

Lona Smith grew up in Oklahoma and has lived in Dallas, Texas, Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, California, upstate New York, and Florida. She is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and attended the University of Oklahoma Medical School. She spent many years in scientific research in microbiology and molecular biology. It was in 1970, while working at UCLA and taking creative writing under Robert Kirsch book review editor for the Los Angeles Times for 25 years that her love of writing began. With his encouragement she published several short stories and articles. In 1973 she moved with her husband, George, to upstate New York to take over operation of his family dairy farms.  Involved in dairy farming for 12 years, and subsequently owning and operating a bed and breakfast and catering business for 16 years she put writing aside. Following the sale of her business in 2000 Lona returned to writing.

Lona has been actively involved in jail ministry for the past 17 years, and in her self-published novel Morning Walk; WinePress Publishers, 2006, she uses her experiences to address ethnic, economic, social, and moral issues in our lives. In 2007 her essay, Genetics of Love, an essay about genetically related cancer, received first place in New York; first place in the northeastern division, and third place nationally in a contest sponsored by Daughters of American Revolution. Most recently, her biography, Dynamite Mike, won first place in the unpublished biography category at the 2009 Florida Writer’s Conference, and her novel, The Promise, was a finalist in the unpublished mainstream fiction category.

When Lona is not writing she is actively involved in the Jail Ministry of Otsego County, New York, as a Lay Speaker in her church, The Daughters of the American Revolution, and Glimmerglass Opera Guild in Cooperstown, New York, or she is traveling with her husband, George.

Dynamite
Mike McGee
Lona Smith
170 pages - Soft Cover

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